300 free verifications/month. No credit card required.

Email Verification API
That Stops Bounces Before You Send

Every bounce tells Gmail and Outlook you don't know your own list. One call. 28 checks. Under a second. Before you send, not after you burn.

Verification that pays for itself. Cloud from $0.001/email, or self-host with unlimited volume.

Live check against the real engine. No signup required.

No credit card. If we can't give you a definitive answer, the check is free.

99%
Accuracy
<1s
Response Time
18
Blacklist Zones
50K
Emails Per Upload

What Happens When Your Emails Bounce?

Bounces are a signal to every mailbox provider that you don't know who you're sending to. And the penalty lands on your good emails too.

2–3%

is all it takes

Deliverability guidance from major ESPs, including Mailchimp and Validity, puts the danger zone at a 2 to 3% bounce rate. Cross it and mailbox providers start quietly routing you to spam. Even the addresses that are real stop seeing you.

22.5%

of your list dies each year

HubSpot's database decay research puts natural list decay at roughly 22.5% per year. People change jobs and abandon inboxes on their own, so the list that performed last year is a bounce factory today.

Weeks

to recover a burned domain

One bad send can wreck a domain's reputation. Rebuilding it takes weeks of careful warm-up. Checking an address first costs a fraction of a cent.

EVA catches dead, disposable, and trap addresses before you press send.

How It Works

Three steps between a raw list and a clean send. No email is ever delivered to the addresses you check.

  1. Send an address, or upload a list

    One REST call, an SDK on npm or PyPI, or a CSV or Excel upload in the dashboard. Nothing to install on your side.

  2. EVA runs 28 checks

    Syntax, DNS and MX, a live SMTP conversation that stops before any message is sent, provider-specific verification for Gmail, Microsoft 365, Yahoo and others, plus disposable, role, catch-all, spam trap and blacklist screening. Under a second per address.

  3. Act on the verdict

    Every address comes back valid, invalid, risky or unknown with a 0 to 100 score. Send to the valid ones, review the risky ones, drop the rest. Unknown results are never billed.

See the full API reference →

What Does an Email Verification API Do?

An email verification API checks whether an address can actually receive mail before you send to it. verifications.email runs 28 checks on every address in a single call: syntax validation, DNS and MX record lookups, a live SMTP conversation with the recipient's mail server that stops before any message is sent, and provider-specific verification for Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Apple, ProtonMail, Zoho, and Mail.ru accounts. It also flags disposable addresses, role accounts like info@ and admin@, catch-all domains with a confidence score, likely spam traps, and domains listed on any of 18 blacklist zones. Each result returns in under a second with a 0 to 100 score and a risk classification of valid, invalid, risky, or unknown. Unknown results are never billed. Teams use it to clean marketing lists, validate signups in real time, and protect sender reputation.

Marketers

Clean every list before you send. Bounces stay under 2%. Campaigns keep landing.

SaaS teams

Block disposable and fake signups in real time. Your funnel stays real.

Developers

One REST call. SDKs on npm and PyPI. Self-host when policy demands it.

What One Call Returns

Every field below comes back in a single JSON response. Full reference in the API docs.

Example API response
{
  "email": "[email protected]",
  "score": 85,
  "risk": "safe",
  "syntax_valid": true,
  "mx_found": true,
  "smtp_check": "deliverable",
  "is_disposable": false,
  "is_role_account": false,
  "is_catch_all": false,
  "is_free_provider": true,
  "spam_trap_risk": "low",
  "deliverability": {
    "grade": "A", "score": 92,
    "authentication": { "spf": "strict", "dkim": "found", "dmarc": "reject" },
    "blacklist": { "listed": false, "listed_count": 0, "total_checks": 18 }
  }
}

How Much Does Email Verification Cost?

Complete verification on every plan. No feature gates. Pay for volume, not capabilities.

Free

$0 /month

300 verifications/month

  • Complete verification included
  • Single & bulk verification
  • No credit card required
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Pro

$50 /month

50,000 verifications/month

$1 per 1,000

  • Complete verification included
  • Bulk CSV up to 20K
  • Webhook notifications
Start Pro Plan

Business

$150 /month

150,000 verifications/month

$1 per 1,000

  • Complete verification included
  • Priority support
  • Usage analytics dashboard
Start Business Plan

Pay As You Go

One flat rate: $1.20 per 1,000 at every size, and credits never expire. No monthly commitment.

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Run the Engine Yourself.

$4,995/yr. Unlimited verifications, updates and support included. Deploy on your own infrastructure.

Self-Hosted License

Frequently Asked Questions

More answers on the full FAQ page.

What is verifications.email?

verifications.email (EVA) is an email verification API that tells you whether an address can actually receive mail before you send to it. One API call runs 28 checks, from syntax and DNS through a live SMTP probe and provider-specific verification, and returns a 0 to 100 score with a risk classification in under a second. It is built for marketers cleaning lists, SaaS teams validating signups, and developers embedding verification. Pricing starts free at 300 verifications per month, and the engine can also be self-hosted under a flat annual license.

How does email verification work without sending an email?

EVA opens an SMTP conversation with the recipient's mail server and stops before any message is sent. The server's responses reveal whether the mailbox exists. On top of that, EVA uses provider-specific strategies for major providers, because Gmail, Microsoft 365, and Yahoo each answer differently. No email ever lands in anyone's inbox.

How accurate is EVA?

EVA achieves 99% verification accuracy using provider-specific strategies rather than a single generic SMTP probe. When a definitive answer is not possible, the result is marked unknown and is never charged.

How much does email verification cost?

EVA's free plan includes 300 verifications per month. Paid plans cost $1 per 1,000 verifications on every tier, from $20/month for 20,000 to $150/month for 150,000. Pay-as-you-go credits are a flat $1.20 per 1,000, from 25,000 credits for $30. Credits never expire. A self-hosted license at $4,995/yr removes per-email costs entirely.

Can I self-host the verification engine?

Yes. The same engine behind the cloud API is available under an annual deployment license at $4,995/yr with unlimited verifications on your own infrastructure, deployed with Docker, all updates and support included. An OEM source license is available for embedding verification in your own product. See the self-hosted guide for how the options compare.

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